• I.Gayathri
• Dr V. R. Jeyasala

The aim of this study is to investigate the goal of envisioning and demonstrating the connection between nature and the Earth in every aspect of social creation. The ecocritical research concerns itself nature's worth and reasonable status and its non-human settings. This paper discusses that occasionally we overlook that we are not free and solitary animals on this planet. We live among many creatures, plants, and non-living things. The demeanour of the non-human types of life gives some regular deplorable, the termination of species, and an unnatural weather change. T.C. Boyle is an incredible American author and short story essayist who highlights the environmental Apocalypse from all viewpoints and shows the significance of nature in his works. A Friend of the Earth (2000) is an apocalyptic science fiction novel that distinguishes between the dangerous effect of global warming on the Earth and everyday terrible events like profound floods and windstorms in the 21st Century. Furthermore, he uncovered that anthropocentrism clashes with ecocentrism, which prompts disregard for conditions in non-human settings and brings the termination of creatures and different species on the planet.

Ecocriticism, Ecology, Apocalypse, Anthropocentrism, Ecocentrism

"Ecological Apocalypse in T. C. Boyle's A Friend of the Earth", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 1, page no.79-81, January-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1901I12.pdf

"Ecological Apocalypse in T. C. Boyle's A Friend of the Earth", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 1, page no. pp79-81, January-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1901I12.pdf